Agriculture Quote by Tom Vilsack

I think we have not done a good job of explaining to people in rural America what is actually happening, number one. And, number…

— Tom Vilsack

Programs that pay farmers not to farm often devastate rural areas. The reductions hurt everyone from fertilizer companies to tractor salesmen.

— Dick Armey

“Now, it's fair to say, the majority of us don't want to be farmers, see farmers, pay farmers, or hear their complaints. Except as…

— Barbara Kingsolver

There's a billboard in a little farm town in the Midwest that says: IF YOU COMPLAIN ABOUT FARMERS, DON'T TALK WITH YOUR MOUTH FULL.

— Lee Iacocca

Marketing is a major headache for farmers.

— Sreenivasan

“The average farmer worked harder than the average forager, and got a worse diet in return. The Agricultural Revolution was history’s biggest fraud.2”

— Yuval Noah Harari

I think that's unjustified criticism. We have had a number of measures in place in this country for several years to mitigate the possibility…

— Ann Veneman

As a society, we devalued farming as an occupation and encouraged the best students to leave the farm for 'better' jobs in the city.…

— Michael Pollan

Farmers are respectable and interesting to me in proportion as they are poor.

— Henry David Thoreau

The [Democratic] party's become an urban party, and they don't get rural America. They don't get agriculture.

— Collin Peterson

Agriculture is a business that has been up to its bib overalls in politics since the first Thanksgiving dinner kickback to the Indians for…

— P. J. O'Rourke

My real emphasis is on the farmers who are taking care of the land, the farmers who are really thinking about our nourishment.

— Alice Waters